An easier way to refuel your tractor

[goeduck]

I always fill on the slab and never knew any different. Amazing thought that in the end it could be dangerous. I still do not understand it though with a plastic can.

 

[guitarman]

These new plastic cans generate static

 

[5030]

These new plastic cans generate static

Sure do. Not a huge issue with diesel but a big issue with gasoline. Always keep the fuel nozzle in physical contact with the fuel can and always fill it on the ground, nit in your trunk or on the bed of your pickup truck. Liquid in motion (fuel) generates static electricity when flowing. Why fuel tankers have a static strap.

 

[5030]

Indeed, the danger is real. My wife was filling cans with gasoline as they were sitting in our truck bed with liner, fire started in the neck of one of the cans.....she blew out the flame. Now the cans are filled on the concrete slab.

She's very lucky she didn't blow herself up. Bed liners and fuel cans getting filled, don't mix well.

 

[5030]

Hi all, What I do, i use the H F transfer pump $8.00 with coupon! My compact Kioti ck 25 HST only holds about 7 gl. It works so good that I bought two more, for my gasoline equipment and the DEF fluid for the truck!✌��️

Just wrote an e-mail to HF requesting them to come put with their transfer pump with a 20 volt Li-Ion removable pack (ala Bauer). The battery pumps are hard on D batteries. 20 volt pack is (would) be the hot setup.

 

[smilinjak]

Indeed, the danger is real. My wife was filling cans with gasoline as they were sitting in our truck bed with liner, fire started in the neck of one of the cans.....she blew out the flame. Now the cans are filled on the concrete slab.

I think I have finally figured this static electricity thing out. Might be wrong but the charge seems to run along the plastic surface as opposed to through a metallic conductor. My shop vac hose will jump a 3/4 inch spark while extracting sawdust from the bandsaw until I attach a ground wire to the plastic hose surface. Could cause a dust explosion I致e been told.

 

[PILOON]

I served in reserve air force as ground crew way back.
When fueling every thing was grounded to everything!
Fuel trucks had ground lines on a reel in order to ground everything together.

Tools were non ferrous, even footwear had no metal wear edges.
Mind U some gases were fairly high octane.

With jet fuel cautions went by the wayside most often.

Gas pumps at service stations actually have grounding woven into the pump hoses as I understand it.

 

[jmc]

Back in the 50's, our store sold automobile grounding straps that just looked like rubber strips hanging down from the car and dragged on the ground. Don't know what they were supposed to solve. They did have lightening bolt graphics molded into them and we stocked them in the Go-Faster section, along side the mud flaps, fuzzy dice, curb feelers, girlie steering wheel spinners, porta-walls, pine tree air fresheners...

The other thing static electricity brings to mind is the unfortunate women who operated industrial sand blasting cabinets- the kind with a window at eye level and built in rubber gloves. You leaned against the cabinet to operate it and if somehow the cabinet lost its ground connection, the static electricity grounded thru the nipples.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Indeed, the danger is real. My wife was filling cans with gasoline as they were sitting in our truck bed with liner, fire started in the neck of one of the cans.....she blew out the flame. Now the cans are filled on the concrete slab.

It’s the law here that cans be on the ground when filling. Also the reason they now limit you to a 5 gal container, and won’t allow you to fill the plastic fuel caddies.

 

[MNBobcat]

I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that! I walk away and do other things while it's filling. I use the same technique for my bobcat.

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

 

[jmc]

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Reminds me of the time I was driving my tractor to volunteer us for some kinda project in town. Our county library has an outside pickup window similar to a fast-food drivethru. While heading towards town, I received a text message that a book I'd asked for was available for pickup so I drove my tractor to that window and handed them my library card. While the librarian was fumbling with the paperwork, I asked him if they get many tractors thru there. "Not really", he said. "The whole staff has come over to take a look at you!"

 

[MNBobcat]

I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that! I walk away and do other things while it's filling. I use the same technique for my bobcat.

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Ha! Good humor! I bet they still talk about that!

When I go to the gas station on the tractor, I laugh when the pump asks if I want a car wash! Maybe one day I should try it...probably end up with really white teeth!

 

[LouNY]

I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that! I walk away and do other things while it's filling. I use the same technique for my bobcat.

My favorite way to fill the tractor though is to drive it into town and pull up at the gas station. You get a lot of looks driving a diesel tractor through a round-about on main street and then pulling into the gas station! It's fun as heck!

Seeing tractors on the roads here is quite common including going through the roundabout and right down main street, very few fill up at the service stations because the fuel is cheaper at home.

 

[5030]

Seeing tractors on the roads here is quite common including going through the roundabout and right down main street, very few fill up at the service stations because the fuel is cheaper at home.

Not so here. The local filling station offers off road red dyed diesel with the pump set up just for fueling ag equipment. Their PPG is less than if I have it delivered to my bulk tank because I pay a delivery charge. Not unusual to see more than one tractor 'filling up' there plus almost everyone replenishes their beverages too.

I believe the station owner saw a profit orientated market and took advantage of it. Only station around here to do that.

 

[5030]

Back in the 50's, our store sold automobile grounding straps that just looked like rubber strips hanging down from the car and dragged on the ground. Don't know what they were supposed to solve. They did have lightening bolt graphics molded into them and we stocked them in the Go-Faster section, along side the mud flaps, fuzzy dice, curb feelers, girlie steering wheel spinners, porta-walls, pine tree air fresheners...

The other thing static electricity brings to mind is the unfortunate women who operated industrial sand blasting cabinets- the kind with a window at eye level and built in rubber gloves. You leaned against the cabinet to operate it and if somehow the cabinet lost its ground connection, the static electricity grounded thru the nipples.

Have them on both my tractors.... The gal's dress comes off when you spin the wheel.....

 

[jmc]

Not so here. The local filling station offers off road red dyed diesel with the pump set up just for fueling ag equipment. Their PPG is less than if I have it delivered to my bulk tank because I pay a delivery charge. Not unusual to see more than one tractor 'filling up' there plus almost everyone replenishes their beverages too.

I believe the station owner saw a profit orientated market and took advantage of it. Only station around here to do that.

Extra credit to your gas station if they also see the need for E-zero gasoline.

 

[5030]

Extra credit to your gas station if they also see the need for E-zero gasoline.

Actually, they have that too. Problem is, it's more expensive than premium e-gas so I don't buy it. I just use Marine Stabil and call it good. Michigan is a bit different when it comes to non e-gas. Lots of outlets here. If yu look on Gas Buddy, you'll see that. We also have high octane racing gas available (aviation gas).

 

[Diggin It]

I set the can on the hood of the tractor and use a jiggle siphon. It doesn't get any easier than that!

IF you can safely lift and position a 40 pound liquid load which you'll find many posts here from people who say they cannot.

 

[jmc]

Actually, they have that too. Problem is, it's more expensive than premium e-gas so I don't buy it. I just use Marine Stabil and call it good. Michigan is a bit different when it comes to non e-gas. Lots of outlets here. If yu look on Gas Buddy, you'll see that. We also have high octane racing gas available (aviation gas).

The difference in E-0 availability between MI and IN is interesting. Wonder if it's political pressure within Indiana, a bread-basket state? "Pure Michigan, Pure Gasoline" (TM)

Last I checked online, our only two local pure gasoline outlets are marinas, far from town. A friend stumbled across a local filling-station but that place isn't listed online .

 

[5030]

Just closed the local corn liquor plant too. Fine with me except that curtails my use of DDG as animal (cattle) feed.